Disney has the right to define its dress code

[caption id="attachment_68414" align="alignright" width="300"] Imane Boudlal speaks during a news conference at the ACLU with her lawyer Mark Rosenbaum, chief counsel ACLU in Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. Boudlal, a former Disneyland employee who says she was forbidden to wear a Muslim head scarf at work plans to sue the Walt Disney Co., for discrimination. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)[/caption]

FULLERTON, Scott Irwin: Regarding the article, “Former worker sues Disney” [Local, Aug. 15]: Prior to accepting a job, I always make inquiries about to the company is culture (i.e., work hours, dress code, pay periods, etc.).

I know people who have worked for, or who are working for, Disneyland and they were told in detail about the company culture, including the dress code. If one doesn't like the job criteria, don't take the job.

But no, some choose to sue the company after the fact and when they are unsuccessful in convincing the company (in this case Disneyland) to change their policies just for them. I hope Disneyland stands its ground and fights for the right to dictate its dress code.

This is a free country. Though you do not have the right to force a company to change its legal policies just because you don't like them, you do have the right to say no when offered a job with an environment that you are not comfortable with.

Disneyland, I am with you on this one.

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DANA POINT, Milt Rouse: Regarding the young lady who desired to wear a hijab at her job at Disneyland, who has been offered a compromise that others would not be given, yet she feels abused: It is difficult to understand why a religious person working at Disneyland or anywhere else should be accorded special privileges not given to those who do not believe in a mythology.

The practice in this country of allowing exceptions to godly folk would be fine if those privileges were also offered to those who believe in secular humanism or even in nothing at all. To guarantee no abuse to the religious, nonbelievers are abused.

Anyone but Mitt

MISSION VIEJO, : Letter-writer J.W. Weeks suggests that voting for anyone other than President Barack Obama is the best decision this November [“Anyone but Obama, Aug. 14].

Let's take a look at Mitt Romney's qualifications:

As job creator: how did that work for Massachusetts? The state ranked 47 out of 50 states in job creation when Mitt was governor – good job beating out Mississippi.

He has jobs experience at Bain Capital: Hardly. The focus was leveraging company debt, closing the companies after taking every asset available. The result was jobs creation in China and India as Bain outsourced U.S. workers. Great for Mitt and his investors, not so good for those employees that were fired.

Honesty and integrity: Really? Hiding the tax returns from the American voters when he was pleased to provide Senator John McCain's team many of his returns. It is hard to believe that Romney finished at least second to Sarah Palin for the VP spot.

How about offshore tax shelters in the Cayman Islands? Has there ever been a candidate for president when sheltered income offshore?

Which one of these achievements/qualifications should we consider in November? I would say anyone but Mitt.

Bailouts for all?

PLACENTIA, Jim Jezowski: Recently at a Colorado rally, President Barack Obama spoke about his bailout of General Motors and Chrysler and then chastised his challenger for being against these bailouts. Obama believes that by allowing GM and Chrysler to avoid bankruptcy, he saved millions of jobs from being lost or shipped to China because he “believes in the American worker.”

Obviously, he does not understand that bankruptcy means reorganizing a company while it stays in business. A company cannot stay in business without its workers. Recently the CEO of GM, who was appointed by the government, said that seven out of 10 GM cars are built in China, and GM's relationship with China “remains strong and focused on the future.”

The most telling statement from Obama during his Colorado speech was when he said, “I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs in every industry.” So, if anyone wonders what another four years of Obama will look like without the worry of getting reelected, he said it last week. He plans on government takeover of all manufacturing industries. For readers who do not know what government ownership of all industries is called, it is “socialism.”

Political sins of omission

LAGUNA WOODS, Wilfred Cohen: The letter, “RomneyCare's record” [Aug. 13], by Denny Freidenrich was typical of the left-wing revisionist policy so popular with the network “news” groups, in that they “edit” facts to match their agenda.

It is true that Joe Soptic lost his job when his plant was shuttered by Bain Capital. Omitted: It happened several years after Romney left the company.

True, Soptic lost his health insurance. Omitted: His wife had her own health insurance and did not lose any care.

True, Soptic's wife died of cancer. Omitted: She died five years after Soptic lost his job.

Freidenrich denigrates the “vicious GOP attack dogs” for their views, but says nothing about how CBS was caught editing out everything favorable to Paul Ryan after his taped interview with “60 Minutes.”

Free speech is wonderful. So is telling the truth.

Democrat bark and bite

ORANGE, Steve Christle: Vice President Joe Biden is stooping to new lows in his attacks on the Republican ticket. It seems clear that the only thing he is concerned about is keeping his job. Rep. Paul Ryan, on the other hand, appears issue-focused, earnestly and articulately explaining his positions. What a stark contrast.

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SURFSIDE, Stephen Berberich: After all the pillorying of Rep. Paul Ryan by the mainstream media, I have but one question: Whom would you prefer to become president in the unlikely death of the sitting president, Paul Ryan or Joe Biden?

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NEWPORT BEACH, Thomas J. Eastmond: The quickest measure of the strength of an opponent's argument is the honesty and accuracy with which he or she restates yours. As we hear from Obama Democrats about the Romney-Ryan plans to reform entitlements, this is a useful rule to bear in mind.

More in debt to China

BREA, James Clifford Preston: If President Barack Obama wins reelection, you had better hope and pray that the Chinese economy starts growing dramatically again.

Why, you ask? Because we are going to need to borrow trillions of dollars. If the Chinese run out of money to loan us, then they will dictate what we can spend, just like the International Monetary Fund is dictating to Greece what it can spend.

Kudos, to Celebrity Watch

MISSION VIEJO, Pam McKeen: We have seen Register headlines about Google cutting 4,000 jobs, water in short supply in the U.S., a former worker suing Disney, and an elderly couple being ordered to tear down their picket fence.

I'd be in a state of depression were it not for Register columnist Timothy Mangan and his Celebrity Watch column.

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